The small group moved on to the Irvine site last Wednesday – around six months after the facility was demolished.

The travellers had taken refuge in the car park of the former centre and within an hour of being reported to North Ayrshire Council, local authority officers visited the site to serve them with a notice to leave by Thursday morning.

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But the group hadn’t budged by the deadline, so council bosses obtained a court notice ordering them to move within 24 hours.

After failing to move away, officers then obtained an eviction notice – which gives instructions to Stirling Park to move vehicles off of the land on behalf of the local authority – which was served on Monday evening. Local authority officers offered assistance and guidance to the travellers when they arrived.